Similarly, the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy of UCLA wrote in a 2015 report that in a survey of LGBT people and people living with HIV, 73% of respondents said they had face-to-face contact with the police in the past five years, Of those respondents, 21% reported encountering “hostile attitudes” from officers, including verbal assaults, sexual harassment and physical assault. A 2012 analysis by the National Inmate Survey, found that lesbian, gay, or bisexual people were incarcerated at a rate of 1,882 per 100,000, or three times higher than the heterosexual U.S. LGBTQ people are also overrepresented in rates of incarceration and prison victimization, the think tank added. However, even with the advances that the movement has made, the Urban Institute, a Washington D.C.-based think tank, said in a report in June 2020 that gays are still “disproportionately harmed” by the criminal justice system, along with Blacks and immigrants. The Queer Liberation March aimed for a protest vibe, saying the main Pride march was too heavily policed by the same department that raided Stonewall a half century earlier.The f irst gay pride parade took place in June 1970, one year after a police raid on the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan led to rioting – an event generally considered one of the most pivotal moments of the gay rights movement. In 2019, there were two marches in Manhattan after some in the community concluded that the annual parade had become too commercialized. Andy Humm had been marching in New York City’s annual Pride march for more than six years when he noticed a shift. Pride NYC’s announcement Saturday follows a division among organizers in recent years in planning for celebrations of LGBTQ pride in New York City. Pride police ban highlights discord among LGBTQ activists. Pride season occurs this year amid activism inspired by the response to racial injustice and police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s death last year at the hands of police in Minneapolis. The uprising is largely credited with fueling the modern LGBTQ rights movement. Those marches came a year after the 1969 uprising outside Manhattan’s Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, in response to a police raid. The disruptions frustrated activists who had hoped to collectively mark the 50th anniversary of the first Gay Pride parades and marches in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco in 1970.
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The parade is scheduled for June after the coronavirus prevented many Pride events worldwide last year, including in New York which instead hosted virtual performances in front of masked participants and honored front-line workers in the pandemic crisis. The group called the ban an “abrupt about-face” and said the decision “to placate some of the activists in our community is shameful.”
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Word of the ban came out Friday when the Gay Officers Action League said in a release it was disheartened by the decision.
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Police will provide first response and security “only when absolutely necessary as mandated by city officials,” the group said, adding it hoped to keep police officers at least one city block away from event perimeter areas where possible. It will also increase the event’s security budget to boost the presence of community-based security and first responders while reducing the police department’s presence. “The sense of safety that law enforcement is meant to provide can instead be threatening, and at times dangerous, to those in our community who are most often targeted with excessive force and/or without reason,” the group said. Organizers of New York City Pride banned the New York Police Department from participating in the annual June parade and related events and moved to reduce their presence on scene, saying their appearance threatened members of the community. In their statement, NYC Pride urged members of law enforcement to “acknowledge their harm and to correct course moving forward.” NYC Pride Parade Bans Police Gay Officers ‘Disheartened’.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Organizers of New York City’s Pride events said Saturday they are banning police and other law enforcement from marching in their huge annual parade until at least 2025 and will also seek to keep on-duty officers a block away from the celebration of LGBTQ people and history.